The Marxism of Che Guevara
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The Marxism of Che Guevara: Philosophy, Economics, and Revolutionary Warfare is a book by Michael Lowy
Michael Löwy
Michael Löwy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is presently the emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS and lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales...

. It is a short work addressing the political, ethical and economic components of Ernesto Guevara's thinking.

First published in French
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 as La pensée de “Che” Guevara in 1970; it was translated by Brian Pearce
Brian Pearce
Brian Leonard Pearce was a British Marxist politician, historian, and translator.-Biography:Brian Pearce was born in Weymouth, Dorset on 9 May 1915. His father was an upwardly mobile engineer, his mother a domestic servant of Irish extraction. Brian was their only child, a shy and precocious boy,...

 and published by Monthly Review Press (New York, NY and London
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) in 1973 as a 127-page hardcover (ISBN 0-85345-274-1).

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Encyclopædia Britannica
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 described it as "a short but lucid introduction to Guevara's ideas" http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:7rHM7Vn6GpkJ:www.britannica.com/eb/print%3FtocId%3D9038387%26fullArticle%3Dtrue++%22The+Marxism+of+Che+Guevara%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=7.

Contents

  • Introduction: Che's theoretical contribution

  • Part I: Che's philosophy
  1. Che and Marxism
    Marxism
    Marxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism. Marxism was pioneered in the early to mid 19th...

  2. The revolution is made by men
  3. The new man
  4. Humanist
    Humanism
    Humanism is an approach in study, philosophy, world view or practice that focuses on human values and concerns. In philosophy and social science, humanism is a perspective which affirms some notion of human nature, and is contrasted with anti-humanism....

     values

  • Part II: Che's economic ideas
  • Introduction
  1. Productive forces and production relations
  2. The law of value
    Law of value
    -General:The law of value is a central concept in Karl Marx's critique of political economy, first expounded in his polemic The Poverty of Philosophy against Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, with reference to David Ricardo's economics...

     and socialist planning
  3. The budgetary system of finance
    Finance
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  4. Material and moral incentives
  5. Voluntary labor
    Manual labour
    Manual labour , manual or manual work is physical work done by people, most especially in contrast to that done by machines, and also to that done by working animals...

     and communism
    Communism
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  • Part III: Revolutionary warfare
  • Introduction
  1. Sociology
    Sociology
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     of the revolution
    Revolution
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  2. Guerrilla warfare
    Guerrilla warfare
    Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare and refers to conflicts in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians use military tactics, such as ambushes, sabotage, raids, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and...

  3. The general strike
    General strike
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  4. The world revolution
    World revolution
    World revolution is the Marxist concept of overthrowing capitalism in all countries through the conscious revolutionary action of the organized working class...


  • Part IV: Guevarism today

  • Appendix: Che's reading

  • Bibliography

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